Hi Nate, Off topic, why Exanet over say Bluearc? And why bond1 over bond0? On Oct 6, 2009, at 1:20 PM, nate wrote: > aurfalien at gmail.com wrote: > >> Setting up 802.3ad didn't seem to yield anything more than what a >> single link could provide based on monitoring via iptraf. > > That is expected, 802.3ad is for aggregating traffic so many:1 > traffic is faster than a single link. > > If you want faster throughput than that for a single link I suggest > going to 10Gbps for best reliability. Many switch vendors now > have low cost 10GbE gear, some even allow you to use CAT5E for it > as well to keep you from having to rip out all of your cabling. > > Most of my systems use mode=1, though we have an Exanet NAS cluster > that uses mode=6 I believe, though the vendor(Exanet) has moved > to 802.3ad for their newer versions of software because it's more > standardized. > > nate > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos